Dave Bennion
@david-bennion.bsky.social
Immigration attorney and director of @freemigration.bsky.social. Open the borders, close the jails. #AbolishICE #FreePalestine
Pinned
Dave Bennion
@david-bennion.bsky.social
· May 10
“Abolish ICE” is the moderate position. Radical is “prosecute every ICE employee under RICO.”
I agree that #abolishICE is the sensible and fair position, but it's not really a moderate position since what it actually means is open borders. Unless people just mean "reform ICE & give it a new name" but then that's not abolishing it at all.
Reposted by Dave Bennion
A mother and her 15 year old autistic son are reunited after nearly 50 days apart.
Emmanuel Garcia went missing, and rather than check missing person’s reports, Houston PD called ICE.
ICE sent him to the Office of Refugee Resettlement and his mom has been fighting to get him back ever since.
Emmanuel Garcia went missing, and rather than check missing person’s reports, Houston PD called ICE.
ICE sent him to the Office of Refugee Resettlement and his mom has been fighting to get him back ever since.
November 24, 2025 at 3:41 AM
A mother and her 15 year old autistic son are reunited after nearly 50 days apart.
Emmanuel Garcia went missing, and rather than check missing person’s reports, Houston PD called ICE.
ICE sent him to the Office of Refugee Resettlement and his mom has been fighting to get him back ever since.
Emmanuel Garcia went missing, and rather than check missing person’s reports, Houston PD called ICE.
ICE sent him to the Office of Refugee Resettlement and his mom has been fighting to get him back ever since.
Reposted by Dave Bennion
Keep this story in the news.
"Man Detained by ICE Found Dead, Hanging With Hands and Feet Tied—Attorney"
www.newsweek.com/ice-detainee...
"Man Detained by ICE Found Dead, Hanging With Hands and Feet Tied—Attorney"
www.newsweek.com/ice-detainee...
Man detained by ICE found dead, hanging with hands and feet tied—attorney
The Chinese national died in Pennsylvania in August, but his family's requests for answers from DHS have gone unmet.
www.newsweek.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Keep this story in the news.
"Man Detained by ICE Found Dead, Hanging With Hands and Feet Tied—Attorney"
www.newsweek.com/ice-detainee...
"Man Detained by ICE Found Dead, Hanging With Hands and Feet Tied—Attorney"
www.newsweek.com/ice-detainee...
Reposted by Dave Bennion
Grok: "The real Final Solution was the friends we gassed along the way"
November 21, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Grok: "The real Final Solution was the friends we gassed along the way"
Reposted by Dave Bennion
Every couple of years, new USians are re-educated about how difficult prosecuting cops [at any level of government] is. Yet, I am subjected hourly to "THEY MUST BE CHARGED AND PROSECUTED" and it takes everything in me not to reach across the screen to punch folks in the neck, lol.
Federal law enforcement officers and prosecutors effectively have absolute immunity from civil liability, even when they commit clear crimes.
Martinez should sue TF out of the DHS
November 20, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Every couple of years, new USians are re-educated about how difficult prosecuting cops [at any level of government] is. Yet, I am subjected hourly to "THEY MUST BE CHARGED AND PROSECUTED" and it takes everything in me not to reach across the screen to punch folks in the neck, lol.
Reposted by Dave Bennion
This is real. From grok.
November 21, 2025 at 12:19 AM
This is real. From grok.
In other words, he's a cop.
Judge Ellis derides Greg Bovino as a serial fabulist who brazenly lied on the stand and seemingly considered it funny to perjure himself. cst.brightspotcdn.com/49/34/daecfb...
November 20, 2025 at 10:16 PM
In other words, he's a cop.
This is the purest form of modern fascist propaganda. Support for anti-immigrant policies must be a categorical disqualifier in left politics.
this defies parody. also helps explain why Sec Bessent bizarrely blamed immigrants when confronted with a question about high beef prices
November 20, 2025 at 8:27 PM
This is the purest form of modern fascist propaganda. Support for anti-immigrant policies must be a categorical disqualifier in left politics.
Reposted by Dave Bennion
Israel Genocide Forces strikes killed at least 28 Palestinians including a woman and 17 children in the Gaza Strip Wednesday in the latest of what local officials say are over 400 Israeli violations of a tenuous ceasefire.
www.commondreams.org/news/israel-...
www.commondreams.org/news/israel-...
At Least 28 Palestinians—Including 17 Children—Killed by Israeli Strikes on Gaza | Common Dreams
The strikes follow a massacre by Israeli forces of 13 Palestinians in a refugee camp in southern Lebanon.
www.commondreams.org
November 20, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Israel Genocide Forces strikes killed at least 28 Palestinians including a woman and 17 children in the Gaza Strip Wednesday in the latest of what local officials say are over 400 Israeli violations of a tenuous ceasefire.
www.commondreams.org/news/israel-...
www.commondreams.org/news/israel-...
ICE's official position is that he tied his own hands and feet behind him. They're not even trying to pretend anymore.
"A Chinese immigrant was found dead in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention, with his hands and feet tied behind him, an attorney has alleged."
www.newsweek.com/ice-detainee...
www.newsweek.com/ice-detainee...
Man detained by ICE found dead, hanging with hands and feet tied—attorney
The Chinese national died in Pennsylvania in August, but his family's requests for answers from DHS have gone unmet.
www.newsweek.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:39 PM
ICE's official position is that he tied his own hands and feet behind him. They're not even trying to pretend anymore.
Reposted by Dave Bennion
NEW:
In 2024, Tierra Walker was sick and getting sicker. She was also pregnant.
She knew abortion was illegal in Texas, but thought there was an exception for women like her, whose health was at risk. Doctors told her there was no emergency.
Then she died.
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
In 2024, Tierra Walker was sick and getting sicker. She was also pregnant.
She knew abortion was illegal in Texas, but thought there was an exception for women like her, whose health was at risk. Doctors told her there was no emergency.
Then she died.
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas.
Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.
www.propublica.org
November 19, 2025 at 11:08 AM
NEW:
In 2024, Tierra Walker was sick and getting sicker. She was also pregnant.
She knew abortion was illegal in Texas, but thought there was an exception for women like her, whose health was at risk. Doctors told her there was no emergency.
Then she died.
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
In 2024, Tierra Walker was sick and getting sicker. She was also pregnant.
She knew abortion was illegal in Texas, but thought there was an exception for women like her, whose health was at risk. Doctors told her there was no emergency.
Then she died.
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
Reposted by Dave Bennion
This is pretty amazing. This guy just won a solid victory in Bucks County, PA, one of the most important swing counties in the country, by *explicitly and deliberately* making his race *all about* nationalizing ICE raids. Confirms the point about this now being a winning issue for Dems.
November 19, 2025 at 5:02 PM
This is pretty amazing. This guy just won a solid victory in Bucks County, PA, one of the most important swing counties in the country, by *explicitly and deliberately* making his race *all about* nationalizing ICE raids. Confirms the point about this now being a winning issue for Dems.
I'm curious with the obsession among some on the left with Nuremberg trials for ICE. At what point in the 80 years of crimes committed by US government actors since WW2 has there been anything resembling Nuremberg trials? Including Trump 1.0. Why would they start now?
November 19, 2025 at 7:02 PM
I'm curious with the obsession among some on the left with Nuremberg trials for ICE. At what point in the 80 years of crimes committed by US government actors since WW2 has there been anything resembling Nuremberg trials? Including Trump 1.0. Why would they start now?
"Cheating Their Way Toward Failure: The Story of the Trump DOJ"
NEWS: During a hearing in federal court in VA, prosecutors confirmed that the operative indictment in the case against James Comey was never shown to or voted on by the entire grand jury before it was presented in open court.
Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution
Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution
November 19, 2025 at 6:52 PM
"Cheating Their Way Toward Failure: The Story of the Trump DOJ"
Reposted by Dave Bennion
Knee-buckling report from Justice Dept sources. "[T]wo pastors close to Trump have given their approval.... One of the attorneys said part of the operational plan involves undercover ICE and FBI agents attending and documenting church security plans."
thisweekinworcester.com/exclusive-tr...
thisweekinworcester.com/exclusive-tr...
Exclusive: Trump DHS Plans Immigration Raids on Churches Over Holidays
The Trump Dept. of Homeland Security is briefing federal agencies on plans for immigration enforcement operations inside churches over holidays.
thisweekinworcester.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Knee-buckling report from Justice Dept sources. "[T]wo pastors close to Trump have given their approval.... One of the attorneys said part of the operational plan involves undercover ICE and FBI agents attending and documenting church security plans."
thisweekinworcester.com/exclusive-tr...
thisweekinworcester.com/exclusive-tr...
Reposted by Dave Bennion
I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression
The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
I tried to type "Best" as an email sign-off and it came out bset, which happens to be how I am feeling now, beset on all sides by this deportation juggernaut. I am tired.
November 12, 2025 at 9:39 PM
I tried to type "Best" as an email sign-off and it came out bset, which happens to be how I am feeling now, beset on all sides by this deportation juggernaut. I am tired.
Reposted by Dave Bennion
He said that the agents would throw food at them to eat. The agents threatened to withhold food for a week and to beat him up if he didn't sign deportation papers. He said he saw others refuse and get beaten/receive no food. He signed because he was afraid.
November 7, 2025 at 3:08 AM
He said that the agents would throw food at them to eat. The agents threatened to withhold food for a week and to beat him up if he didn't sign deportation papers. He said he saw others refuse and get beaten/receive no food. He signed because he was afraid.
Reposted by Dave Bennion
1. In the wake on Mamdani’s win, we’ll see a lot more far right anti-urban sentiment. Here’s a thread on its roots and evolution.
The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵
The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵
November 5, 2025 at 7:58 AM
1. In the wake on Mamdani’s win, we’ll see a lot more far right anti-urban sentiment. Here’s a thread on its roots and evolution.
The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵
The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵
Reposted by Dave Bennion
Not sure how many Cheney obits will mention this murderous legacy of his.
Post-9/11 wars have contributed to some 4.5 million deaths, report suggests
Researchers attempt to calculate the number of deaths attributable to the war on terrorism, across Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Somalia and Yemen.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 4, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Not sure how many Cheney obits will mention this murderous legacy of his.
Nazis
I'm shaking almost too hard to type. I entered SLC airport and heard screams and cries for help. I could see people gathered around, watching. I sped over to discover this woman face down on the floor, four grown men pushing her down, while she cried "HELP ME" and pled for her child.
October 30, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Nazis
Reposted by Dave Bennion
Amnesty International is calling a U.S. strike in April on a prison in Yemen that killed dozens of detained African migrants a war crime. It followed a similar strike on the same prison compound back in 2022 by a Saudi-led coalition targeting the Houthis.
October 30, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Amnesty International is calling a U.S. strike in April on a prison in Yemen that killed dozens of detained African migrants a war crime. It followed a similar strike on the same prison compound back in 2022 by a Saudi-led coalition targeting the Houthis.
Reposted by Dave Bennion
HAPPENING NOW: Portland Police Commander Franz Schoening testifies that federal officers on Oct. 18 barraged protesters with crowd control munitions — not because of any violence but because another federal officer accidentally shot tear gas onto the roof of the ICE facility.
October 29, 2025 at 6:05 PM
HAPPENING NOW: Portland Police Commander Franz Schoening testifies that federal officers on Oct. 18 barraged protesters with crowd control munitions — not because of any violence but because another federal officer accidentally shot tear gas onto the roof of the ICE facility.
Reposted by Dave Bennion
these guys just love doing this. nothing like 8 storm troopers beating the absolute shit out of a defenseless old person www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
US citizen, 67, ‘has six ribs broken’ by Border Patrol agents, his running club says
The incident unfolded Saturday in Chicago’s Old Irving Park neighborhood, where residents say federal agents disrupted a children’s Halloween parade
www.independent.co.uk
October 29, 2025 at 11:30 AM
these guys just love doing this. nothing like 8 storm troopers beating the absolute shit out of a defenseless old person www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Reposted by Dave Bennion
U.S. Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino is on the witness stand in the courtroom of U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis. He is wearing his typical Border Patrol uniform.
"Good morning, your honor," he says.
"Good morning, your honor," he says.
Ellis is calling Bovino to the witness stand.
Will start a new thread for his testimony.
Will start a new thread for his testimony.
October 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
U.S. Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino is on the witness stand in the courtroom of U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis. He is wearing his typical Border Patrol uniform.
"Good morning, your honor," he says.
"Good morning, your honor," he says.
Reposted by Dave Bennion
“During a soft lockdown, the school’s teachers are asked to check the hallways for staff and students before locking doors and windows. There are no outdoor activities …” people.com/chicago-scho...
Chicago Schools on Soft Lockdown to Protect Kids amid ICE Activity: Reports
Multiple Chicago schools were reportedly on soft lockdowns on Friday after there were reports of ICE activity in the area. Tear gas was also used in another neighborhood, where an alderman said "const...
people.com
October 27, 2025 at 5:10 PM
“During a soft lockdown, the school’s teachers are asked to check the hallways for staff and students before locking doors and windows. There are no outdoor activities …” people.com/chicago-scho...